Rose Puckey 🏴🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦☮ on Nostr: Atheist but always say this, I shouted it in a supermarket tonight when someone ...
Atheist but always say this, I shouted it in a supermarket tonight when someone sneezed in the next Isle, he shouted back thank you but really you're not supposed to day anything. I do it mostly because it originally wasn't so much religious as bestowing blessings on someone who was probably going to die from the plague. As in the rhyme about the plague:
Ring a ring of roses (the marks that were early signs of plague)
A pocket full of posies (to overpower the stench)
A tish you, a tish you (sneezing was where this came from, after the rings of roses sneezing was a sign you had it)
We all fall down (dead) ☠☠☠
The next verse starts pushing up the dasies which in London at least is what people say about those who have died.
This was told to me on a tour of an old part of West London where the plague pit was marked as such and is part of the historic tour of the area. If I have it wrong I would love to hear alternatives.
Ring a ring of roses (the marks that were early signs of plague)
A pocket full of posies (to overpower the stench)
A tish you, a tish you (sneezing was where this came from, after the rings of roses sneezing was a sign you had it)
We all fall down (dead) ☠☠☠
The next verse starts pushing up the dasies which in London at least is what people say about those who have died.
This was told to me on a tour of an old part of West London where the plague pit was marked as such and is part of the historic tour of the area. If I have it wrong I would love to hear alternatives.